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The rollout list is the lesson
Microsoft Learn's Copilot requirements page does not say 'announce it and see'. It asks for an eligible licence, an Entra ID account, the right apps, network access, and, as a strong recommendation, a governed foundation: oversharing remediated, guardrails on, labels in place. A company new to AI can treat that list as the curriculum. The September feature names are not a substitute for it.
What the class cannot skip
If SharePoint is overshared, a training session will demonstrate the overshare. If web search policy has not been decided, the class will invent one by accident. Learn points administrators at SharePoint Advanced Management and Purview before it points at enthusiasm. Put those checks on the same plan as the exercise, with a person who can fail the exercise if the checks are red.
Usage is not applause
The same family of guidance, including the rollout material this site's older notes already lean on, treats a pilot as something you evaluate, including the pilots that do not earn a second week. FrontierOrg, a fictional method, records failed pilots on purpose.
One workflow earns the next
Do not train Home, Code, Autopilot and Work IQ as one induction. Train the workflow that has a baseline. Microsoft's staging gives you cover. Most of the new surface is not generally available to every seat. Your calendar does not have to pretend that it is.
Monday
Write five ticks: licence, account, network, sharing check, named workflow. Any blank tick postpones the training date. Tell the sponsor why, in those words.
Which red check are you under pressure to train through anyway?
Sources: Microsoft Learn, Microsoft Copilot requirements (opens in a new tab).
Where this note mentions FrontierOrg, that is a fictional method for rehearsing a decision. It is not a company, not a client, and not a case study.